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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2017
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Milpitas, CA (US);
Richard James Sharpe, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Durga Mahesh Arikatla, San Jose, CA (US);
Rishabh Sharma, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Milpitas, CA (US);
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes a set of host machines, each of which includes a hypervisor, virtual machines, and a virtual machine controller, and a file server splitting system configured to split an existing virtualized file server (VFS) into a set of new virtualized file servers (VFSs), the splitting system configured to select one or more existing file server virtual machines (FSVMs) to be removed from the existing VFS. For each existing FSVM, the splitting system is configured to identify an available FSVM that is separate from the existing VFS, provide resources of the existing FSVM to the available FSVM, incorporate the available FSVM into one of the new VFSs, and remove the existing FSVM from the existing VFS. The splitting system may be further configured to re-direct requests to access storage items served by the existing FSVM to the available FSVM.